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Re: DOS undocumented feature

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Jul 28, 2002
• 433 views

Martin <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> wrote:

> Juergen Luethje
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>> Is the information in the INDEX.DAT files not stored for such a long
>> time, or what do you mean? Would you think that it doesn't make sense
>> to delete the INDEX.DAT files for the sake of privacy?

> Normally web pages can't just read a file or browse your hisory.

When a web page tries to read a file, AFAIK the main problem is to know
the name and the location of that file. Name and location of the
INDEX.DAT files normally are known. When a web page can read cookies
(which are files), why shouldn't it be able to read INDEX.DAT files?

> I wouldn't delete INDEX.DAT because it contains data needed for
> off-line browsing (which I often use)

I see. Then the INDEX.DAT files shouldn't be deleted, of course.

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>> What exactly shall I try? This is a HTML tag, isn't it? I saved your
>> post as HTML file. I have MSIE 5.50 + SP1. When I open this HTML file
>> with it, I can't detect anything special. It just shows a square with
>> a red cross inside, instead of <img src="file:///C|/con/con">.

> This is one older bug in MSIE+Win. Reference to PRN,CON or AUX causes
> system to crash. You probably have Win2000+.
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I have Win 98, 1st edition.

Regards,
   Juergen